All Quotes

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
‐‐ John C. Crosby

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.
‐‐ Helen Andelin

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
‐‐ Alexander Cockburn

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
‐‐ Rick Boucher

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
‐‐ Al Gore

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
‐‐ Huey Newton

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
‐‐ Charles Evans Hughes

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
‐‐ Jimmy Doolittle

The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.
‐‐ Ren Ng

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
‐‐ Kathleen Blanco

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.
‐‐ Josh Fox

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
‐‐ Billy Collins

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
‐‐ Michael Badnarik

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
‐‐ Andrew Carnegie

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
‐‐ Adam Richman

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.
‐‐ Ethan Embry

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
‐‐ Mary Antin

The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.
‐‐ Jerry Leiber

The first mention of a 'ranger' is as early as 1622, during the 1622 Powhatan rebellion, a near-successful effort to drive the British out of what is now Virginia.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.
‐‐ Virginia Foxx

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
‐‐ Lester Bangs

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.
‐‐ David Alan Basche

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
‐‐ Gerard De Nerval

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
‐‐ Mary Leakey

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
‐‐ Marguerite Young

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
‐‐ Drew Carey

The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
‐‐ Dan Scanlon

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.
‐‐ Philip Warren Anderson

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.
‐‐ Richard O'Brien

The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'
‐‐ CJ Adams

The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort